Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off
until the day after tomorrow what should
have been done the day before yesterday.
- Napoleon Hill
Do it Now!
- Napoleon Hill
A goal is a dream with a deadline.
- Napoleon Hill
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe,
it can achieve.
- Napoleon Hill
The majority of men meet with failure
because of their lack of persistence
in creating new plans to take
the place of those which fail.
- Napoleon Hill
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -
unless you let him.
- Napoleon Hill
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
- Napoleon Hill
Success... A goal is a dream with a deadline.
- Napoleon Hill
Action is the real measure of intelligence.
- Napoleon Hill (author of the classic Think and Grow Rich)
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work
for which he is best suited.
- Napoleon Hill
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
Patience, persistence and perspiration
make an unbeatable combination for success.
- Napoleon Hill
Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts.
If you don't control what you think,
you can't control what you do.
Simply, self-discipline enables you
to think first and act afterward.
- Napoleon Hill
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children
of the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
- Napoleon Hill
Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
- Napoleon Hill
Procrastination is like a credit card:
it's a lot of fun until you get the bill.
- Christopher Parker
Procrastination is the thief of time.
- Edward Young
Oh, Shrek. Don't worry.
Things just seem bad because it's dark and rainy
and Fiona's father hired a sleazy hitman to whack you.
- the movie Shrek 2
Greetings, cosmic children of the universe.
Welcome to my serenity circle.
Please leave all bad vibes outside the healing vortex.
- the movie Shrek the Third (2007)
God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is,
he's stuck with so many bad actors
who don't know how to play funny.
- Garrison Keillor
Too bad all the people who know how to run this country
are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
- George Burns
Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
- Woody Allen
I love to shop after a bad relationship.
I don't know. I buy a new outfit
and it makes me feel better. It just does.
Sometimes I see a really great outfit,
I'll break up with someone on purpose.
- Rita Rudner
A loyal friend laughs at your jokes
when they're not so good,
and sympathizes with your problems
when they're not so bad.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
The church is always trying to get other people to reform;
it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little,
by way of example.
- Mark Twain
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
- Mel Brooks
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something;
in the absence of good grounds for belief,
he will be satisfied with bad ones.
- Bertrand Russell
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
- Albert Schweitzer
99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
- Anonymous
The third certainty of life, after death and taxes,
is that nothing will work out the way you want.
Life is fully as bad as you think it is.
Choose to live joyfully anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every form of addiction is bad,
no matter whether the narcotic
be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
- Carl Jung
The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Relax. Take a day off.
Go for a long silent walk in the woods.
The world will still be there tomorrow -
as good and as bad as ever.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I find that he is happiest
of whom the world says least, good or bad.
- Thomas Jefferson
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
Balance good, karate good. Everything good.
Balance bad, better pack up, go home. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
By all means marry.
If you get a good wife, you'll be happy.
If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher
and that is a good thing for any man.
- Socrates
Correcting bad habits cannot be done
by forbidding or punishment.
- Robert Baden-Powell (the founder of scouting)
Good manners sometimes means simply
putting up with other people's bad manners.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Good judgement comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgement.
- Jim Horning
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
Don't take rejection personally.
Don't let someone else's bad day spoil your day.
As long as you never reject yourself, you'll be fine.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression
and cruelty by the bad people
but the silence over that by the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
- Thomas Jefferson
The bad news is time flies.
The good news is you're the pilot.
- Michael Althsuler
When we got into office, the thing
that surprised me most
was to find that things were just as bad
as we'd been saying they were.
- John F. Kennedy
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
We will have to repent in this generation,
not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people,
but for the appalling silence of the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- Benjamin Franklin
There is no odor so bad as that
which arises from goodness tainted.
- Henry David Thoreau
I have this theory - that if we're told we're bad,
then that's the only ideal we'll ever have.
- Jewel
The only thing worse than a bad day is no day at all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is fully as bad as you think it is,
so never think life is bad.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best way to get a bad law repealed
is to enforce it strictly.
- Abraham Lincoln
If you look for the bad in people
expecting to find it, you surely will.
- Abraham Lincoln
When trouble arises and things look bad,
there is always one individual who perceives a solution
and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
- Dave Barry
Let me give you a definition of ethics:
It is good to maintain and further life
it is bad to damage and destroy life.
- Albert Schweitzer
Judgment is discernment on a bad hair day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Experience life in all possible ways -
good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter.
Experience all the dualities.
Don't be afraid of experience,
because the more experience you have,
the more mature you become.
- Osho
I'm having a bad day. I am not size six.
My legs are not skinny as sticks,
and dammit, someone's got to pay.
I'm afraid that I can't satisfy myself
and that my happiness depends on someone else.
I feel weak, so you're gonna take the fall.
You're so shallow.
- Jewel
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government
results from too much government.
- Thomas Jefferson
When I do good, I feel good.
When I do bad, I feel bad.
That's my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln
Bad times have a scientific value.
These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We cannot make good news out of bad practice.
- Edward R. Murrow
Faith is trusting in the good.
Fear is putting your trust in the bad.
- Rhonda Byrne
About morals: I know only that
what is moral is what you feel good after
and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
- Ernest Hemingway
Bad habits are like a comfortable bed,
easy to get into, but hard to get out of.
- Proverb
Positive thinking has acquired a bad reputation -
which I believe to be totally undeserved.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There was never a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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